Subtitle: From illusion to disenchantment.
And of that transition that this subtitle points to, beyond the historical Transition, there is much. A disenchantment with the work of political engineering that we were left perched for the elections of June 15, 1977.
What seemed like a twinning has led to a total cainism, of prosperous regions with less affluent regions, of the center with the peripheries, of the supposed historical nationalities with the rest of ordinary Spaniards who seem to have come out of a limbo without any historical luster. .
Perhaps it is that that illusion was a pretense, or a flimsy starting point, a career, a dispute between siblings who, after half a life giving each other milk for toys, faced without any maturity the most relevant division of identity.
And each one threw his own. And always found foundations, myths, idols and other fanfare that accompanies its noise and its devoted processes of evolution of peoples that never existed.
The illusion did exist. The dictator was gone. But hatred was already sown. Some believed they had the legacy of the new Spain and others looked for arguments and replies to gain autonomy, and with it power and consequently development ..., until that fateful moment in which money reinvents everything, lack of solidarity finds its Gothic king, his kingdom of Taifas or your county to justify an exit by the forum in the middle of the execution process.
What if he goes about this book What happened to us, Spain…., you are right. Fernando Ónega is in charge of giving voice to forty years of negotiation. A negotiation between Spain and Spain, between authentic merchants who seek their interest behind the flag.
The author gives us the reasons for questioning everything. It is true that the starting point towards concordance was not easy at all, what could be done was done ... That is why in the end an aroma of fatal destiny is culled, to an end, to a revenge for the hard years of dictatorship (others almost forty)
No. The idea of the journalist and writer is not to present this kind of national apocalypse. We do not find such a feeling in this book. Fernando Ónega strives to find answers and solutions. And maybe he is right. Maybe we still have a remedy.
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